Karoline

Hey my name is Karoline, I attend the University of Alabama. I am the athletic type, working out is what I enjoy the most. Roll Tide!

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Final Blog Post

As I reflect on the semester I can definitely see the areas in which I have improved, and also the ones I need to work on. I got a lot from this class, I got the chance to completely understand the elements of logos ethos and pathos and how to use those three things in my writing. It was definitely a challenge with some of the writing's we had to do, but it majorly helped me. I got to take a topic that means a lot to me and that I was in treated in and research and write about it the whole semester. The topic I chose was so personal and really meant a lot to me, and getting to share what I feel about it with others really made me feel good. I think these blog post helped in a way, in that it gave me a chance to see what others have to say as well as get feedback on mine. They do take time, and are often forgotten but they are such a helpful tool. I learned a lot from this class and improved my writing majorly from last semester, and enjoyed, not all, but most of it.

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BLOG POST 12: REPORT ON GALLERY

Tuesday we participated in a gallery type activity, where we walked around and looked at all the memes the students created. We got a chance to talk to them about them and discuss them with the creator. I only got the chance to talk to two people. The first person I talked to was Thomas. He did his based on marijuana therapy, but the meme was more towards the sarcastic way. He used Scumbag Steve, which is a character who looks like he is possibly up to no good, and affiliated with the street or violence. I also spoke with Jabari, who used the picture of the skeptical third world kid in his meme. His meme directs toward music therapy, although the words didn't really go along with picture. They really didn't go together. It was stating the obvious, just didn't have that relationship between the picture and the words. Altogether most all of my peers focused on making there memes sarcastic or a funny manner, I would like to see more of them focused on there topic. Mine was related to my topic as well as had a little humor in it.

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BLOG POST 11: REFLECTIONS

In my opinion this process in writing the argumentative synthesis was much easier than all the other papers. It was eaiser for me to talk about and get my points across  Although the research process was a little difficult it definitely gave me the opportunity to learn somethings that I didn't even know myself. Having personal conferences with the teacher helped a ton. It helped improve my writing skills and gave me direction in writing my paper. Overall the experience of this paper was fairly easy and a lot better than all the other papers we have written this semester, and I actually enjoyed it a little. I find that I can enjoy writing a paper when I can relate to it and have a personal experience with it. It definitely had some emotional aspects for me and I find it so disappointing that the topic I have been working with has to be an issue still in 2014. it breaks my heart it really does, but I feel like things have a chance to improve with years to come. But research overall is very important and helps not only me but helps the future of society.

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Blog Post 4: Reflections

Now that I have really learned the concept of analyzing I think I appreciate  it more. You never realize how much you actually use this skill, but if you sit back and look and the basic things that happen in everyday life you will realize you analyze everything. Whether it be a person, a sign, or even an ad. Since studying this skill in EN 102 it has definitely given me a different outlook on things. You can be analyzing something and not even know it. I just think it is harder when your given a specific item or thing and told to analyze it because you try to think too much, when really it's fairly simple. For example, this may sound weird but when I listen to music I usually just learn the words and sing them without even thinking about the meaning behind it. So lately I have actually been listening to songs and analyzing the true meaning of them. It is actually very interesting. Analyzing something you do in everyday life you just don't realize when you do it. It comes naturally. This is something I will try to do more often and actually pay attention to. I could be missing out just because I let things just fly right over my head. It's nice to be able to put things in to perspective, you actually learn some things you never knew. 

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Blog: Analyzing

In this article about building community and accountability online if very effective. It appeals to the mind in multiple ways. They talk about community and how in order to hold someone accountable online you have to be cautious, making sure that you leave them with motivation rather than grief, and feeling like they will never be good enough. I would say that this could be multiple appeals such as: Appeal to Anonymous Authority, Appeal to Ignorance, or even Appeal to Common Practice. A person could be stating something they know, or simply giving information because it has been a proven fact/claim. In this article it's stated that people do and will mess up online just as they do offline, in reality. This Appeal to Fear is very common, because people will write and post things, knowing there will be negative feedback an harsch comments given to them. Instead of being brutal with them people to need to critique them and give them a sense of willpower and motivation as stated in the article. As readers can tell as reading this article and analyzing it, there are quite a few appeals found. Again I agree with it being effective, given the strategies it's very clear that this is very valuable information that can be useful. It speaks to the audience very well and gives readers a chance to really decide if this could be effective or non effective.

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Blog Post 2: Style

My example of style is from http://www.usatoday.com/ 

This website contains tons and tons of articles all the way from Sports and News, to Tech and Life. Most interesting or most looked out is probably Life and sports. The Life category of course focuses on the lives of celebrities and all the gossip and talk about what is going on all over the world. Like the incident that has been brought out today about Justin Bieber. Its all over the internet, even on this website. We all know who he is and how much he has chaged over the time period of his carrer. His is a young adult just like us, he is going to make mistakes. The fact that he is famous gives media and all these different websites a reason to put him out all over the internet and news. This article http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/01/23/justin-bieber-is-at-his-lowest-experts-say/4799383/ explains the DUI Bieber has recently gotten. Now I believe this happened of course it's been said by many, its been on the news, and of course millions of tweets about it. On websites like these there can often times be "yellow journalism" if you will which is falsley given information about a certain topic. In this article about Justin I think there is very harsh word choice setting the tone and making him out to be like this big criminal. Many journalists are saying this should be his big wake up call. I do agree that he needs to change some things if he is going to continue to be ro-model for young children and teens, but also people do make mistakes and you can't fault anyone for that because we all do it. These articles about him are put out to draw in the audience of the nation, not just certain people. If you were in this situation it wouldn't be headlining on the news or trending on twitter, would it? Put yourself in his shoes, having the media constantly be involved in your life 24/7, I'm sure you would have different thoughts. I do find it appealing, it obviously got my attention and millions of others, not saying that I think it is right.

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Article

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-07-colorblind_x.htm

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/wellness/marriage/story/2011-11-07/Interracial-marriage-More-accepted-still-growing/51115322/1

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Blog Post 1: Research Proposal

Research Proposal:

 1.Research Category: Relationships

2.Research Topic: Interracial dating/relationships in society and how its viewed. I chose this topic on a personal level in that it bothers me that it’s looked down on by many today. On an academic level, I am very curious and interested to find out the views from not only interracial couples but from Caucasian, Asian, African American, etc. Really just get down to the core of why it should be looked at differently than say a Caucasian male and female, so that one day it will not be an “issue”.

a. Why should interracial relationships be an “issue” or viewed any differently from any other relationships?

b. Have we let the views of others effect the decisions that we make for our own lives?

c. Has the media given off negative feed on this topic, or made it look like it’s okay to bash people that choose this lifestyle?

d. Why can’t people marry whom they fall in love with?

e. What is a “perfect family”?

3.15 Sub questions: why should interracial relationships be an “issue” or viewed any differently from any other relationships?

a. Why do we see the color of someone’s skin as being a “direction” in the choices we make?

b. Do you think it’s becoming more common with the younger generations rather than say our parents and grandparent’s generations?

c. Do people that are not for but against this actually have ethical reasoning?

            d. What is the public reaction to this?

e. Why do people think mixed children get bullied and looked down on? Do you think this happens or not?

f.Do you believe your life would be different in any way if your spouse were of the same race? If yes, how so? If not, why?

g. Does it affect your life when you see an interracial couple? Why?

h. Have the members of our society ever thought about how all the negative views on how they feel about interracial relationships emotionally affect those who believe in this?

i. Will America morally improve their behavior towards this topic?

j. Does scripture back this up?

k. Linked to the main question, is there such thing as a “perfect family image” to you?

l. Say I am in a relationship with a black male, and you’re a white female in a relationship with a white male, why can you be happy and I cannot? What gives you the reason to judge me and try to make decisions for me?

m. Do cultural differences make this a problem? Ethically, how?

n. Why do people think blacks,whites,Hispanic,etc; are not all equally the same?

o. Why is racism still am issue in society today? Why has it gotten so bad that it’s effecting relationships and families all over the world?

    SECOND: PODCAST ANSWERS

1.Some ways you can search are by choosing keywords.

2. Boolean Operators are helpful for many reasons and here are some reasons:

AND- combines/narrows the search.

OR- searches either and broadens the search.

NOT- excludes specific terms and narrows the search.

3.It is effective to come up with key words in that it will help you throughout your research and gives you more specific information making it easier to be successful with the research. You can come up with these key terms by using the Boolean operators and searching for like terms that relate to your category.

4.Two key words: Racism, Relationships

-These keywords will help target exactly what I am looking for and help give me direct results.